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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3343262, member: 80783&quot;]I have just booked a trip to Trier and can´t wait to visit those ruins and the museum!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes you are right, no coins of Maximinus himself were found at the Harzhorn site so far.</p><p>But considering that they have found less than two dozen coins (spanning half a century) so far does make it likely that none of the very newest emission of the Rome mint were discovered (yet).</p><p>Remember that Maximinus did not wait for more than a couple of months before he started his invasion (I did an extensive writeup about the campaign and his VICTORIA GERMANICA coinage connected to it here: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximinus-thrax´-victoria-germanica-the-battle-at-the-harzhorn.306344/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximinus-thrax´-victoria-germanica-the-battle-at-the-harzhorn.306344/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximinus-thrax´-victoria-germanica-the-battle-at-the-harzhorn.306344/</a> ), so it is not likely that a large number of his new Denarii had made it from Rome to Mogontiacum by then in the first place.</p><p>The legions on the Rhine frontier were the first (and, for a time, only) soldiers in the Empire who knew who the new emperor was, so there was a greater need to distribute the new coins bearing his portrait (and announcing his acclamation) elsewhere.</p><p>At any chance the soldiers of the invasion force probably did not see the need to bring large amounts of cash with them into the forests of Germania Magna and if they did, they may have taken their old small change and better left the shiny new donaive in their lockers at their home base instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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